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IX.—On certain Letters of Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, giving an account of the affair of the Earl of Somerset, with Remarks on the career of Somerset as a public man. By Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Esq., in a Letter to C. Knight Watson, Esq., M.A., Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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I have the honour to lay hefore the Society of Antiquaries copies and translations of some original documents from the archives of Simancas and Venice, relating to the passage of English history which formed the subject of a communication from Mr. Spedding on the 1st of March of the present year, and in doing so I can only regret that they were not before Mr. Spedding at the time when he was drawing up his Paper. In that case they would not merely have been in the hands of one who was most capable of making the best use of them, but they would have fallen into their natural place in the narrative which he prepared. He would have found in them the strongest confirmation of many of his arguments; but, amongst the new facts which would have thus been at his service, he would not have encountered one to necessitate the withdrawal or even the modification of a single statement.
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page 152 note a Sarmiento to Philip III. 
1613 Simancas MSS.
page 153 note a Sarmiento to Philip III. January 
, 1614, Simancas MSS.
page 153 note b Accounts of Sarmiento for the year ending February 
, 1614, Simancas MSS.
page 153 note c Sarmiento to Philip III. May , 1616, Simancas MSS.
page 153 note d Sarmiento to Philip III. January , 1614, Simancas MSS.
page 154 note a No account of Digby's communication has reached us, but, as copies of the lists of pensioners still preserved at Simancas were undoubtedly in his hands, there can be no doubt what its tenor was.
page 155 note a Sarmiento to Philip III. October 
, 1614, Simancas MSS.
page 155 note b Notes to the accounts of the Spanish Embassy in England, August , 1622, Simancas MSS.
page 155 note c Sarmiento to Philip III. November 
, 1614, Simancas MSS.
page 156 note a The letter as here printed is taken from a copy preserved in the writer's defence of his conduct, written in 1624, Tanner MSS. lxxiii. fol. 449. The fact that this defence was to come under the then hostile eye of the Prince is a sufficient guarantee for the correctness of the copy. The letter was afterwards laid before Parliament in 1626, and is to be found printed in the State Trials (ii. 1408), with several verbal discrepancies, and with the omission of one clause:—“and whereby your Highnes' issue will hare the most undoubted and unquestionable royall blood.”
page 157 note a Sarmiento to Philip III. April 
, 1615, Simancas MSS.
page 158 note a 7002, fol. 378.
page 159 note a Paper relating to the marriage, March 
. The King's notes undated, but before May 
, 1615, Simancas MSS. This paper, and all others which I have quoted from the Simancas Archives, are in Spanish. For the translation I am answerable.
page 164 note a Sarmiento to Philip III. May 1616, Simancas MSS.
page 164 note b Digby to James I. December 16, 1615, State Papers. Spain.
page 164 note c Sarmiento to Philip III. January , 1616, Simancas MSS.